Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said,
"Why could we not drive it out?"
He said to them, "Because of your little faith.
There are so many mountains that aren't moving. There are so many demons in the culture and the world that need to be driven out. We are offered the power to do so, but we fail to take it. Why do we fail when we run up against these obstacles? Isn't it because we don't really take the promises of Jesus to heart? Faith comes from hearing (see Romans 10:17). Isn't it because we don't fill our ears, our minds, and even our lips with the words that have the power to save souls (see James 1:21).
It isn't something broken within us that prevents us from having faith. It is a failure to respond to the invitation to take the Word of God to heart.
Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.
Drill them into your children.
Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest.
This should encourage us if our faith is weak. If we don't live lives filled with the miraculous power of God then the starting place is the Word. We need to soak in it, to fill ourselves with it, to become completely saturated by it. It has the power to change our thoughts, to renew our minds, and ultimately to strengthen our faith, our hope, and our love. Having little faith is in eminently correctable problem. Let's look around ourselves. Don't we see the mountains that need to move and the demons that need to leave? Let's begin in the Word! This is how we end in victory.
The LORD live! And blessed be my Rock!
Extolled be God my savior!
You who gave great victories to your king,
and showed kindness to your anointed,
to David and his posterity forever.
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